Zuckerberg took to Facebook yesterday to talk about the personal challenges he’s set himself for 2016, which includes building a robot butler.

Because guy’s got to have goals.

‘My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,’ he wrote.

‘I’m going to start by exploring what technology is already out there. Then I’ll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home – music, lights, temperature and so on.’

He explained: ‘At Facebook I spend a lot of time working with engineers to build new things…But it’s a different kind of rewarding to build things yourself, so this year my personal challenge is to do that.’

While thousands shared the post and many commented that he’d inspired them to come up with their own tech challenges, one particular comment elicited a response from the man himself.

A grandmother wrote: ‘I keep telling my grand daughters to date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg! Thanks for FB, I’ve reconnected with family and many old friends and classmates.’

Zuckerberg replied: ‘Even better would be to encourage them to *be* the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor!’